Heterogeneous polymerizations in supercritical carbon dioxide continuous phases
- Univ. of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC (United States)
Heterogeneous emulsion polymerizations are important industrial methods for the synthesis of various polymeric materials. These processes generally use water as the dispersing medium. The authors propose to utilize carbon dioxide as the dispersing medium which would make the polymer recovery easier and would circumvent the contamination of water. In CO{sub 2} - based emulsion process one can have either a hydrophilic dispersed phase (hydrophilic monomer) or a hydrophobic dispersed phase (hydrophobic monomer). The surfactant has to be designed to partition itself at the CO{sub 2} - monomer/polymer interface and the initiator has to be soluble in the dispersing medium. The design of the initiator and graft copolymer surfactants will be presented. One example of a graft copolymer is a copolymer of poly(ethylene oxide) macromonomer synthesized by living anionic polymerization and a fluoroacrylate monomer resulting in a graft copolymer having hydrophilic grafts and a {open_quotes}CO{sub 2}-philic{close_quotes} backbone (due to the fluorine chains). The phase behavior of these surfactants will be discussed at the meeting.
- OSTI ID:
- 141817
- Report Number(s):
- CONF-930304-; TRN: 93:003688-1504
- Resource Relation:
- Conference: 205. American Chemical Society national meeting, Denver, CO (United States), 28 Mar - 2 Apr 1993; Other Information: PBD: 1993; Related Information: Is Part Of 205th ACS national meeting; PB: 1951 p.
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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